Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31398341-20170409101440/@comment-30155146-20170425235619

Xxiziggsxx wrote: Can anyone explain to me why Salamence is S right now because it suffers horribly to ice moves and IMO is kind of bad mainly because of how easily i see it get taken down That's because no one in low tier uses it right.

Using Dragon Dance + Areilate can actually get a ridiculously powerful pokemon, what with the huge bases of Return/Double Edge and the 1.3x boost by Areilate, at which point the only way you can really stop it is a fully invested ice shard.